Got my SR2’s today. Very nice. I have them on my iFi Pro iCAN with NO bells and whistles. Right off the bat I like the bass, the vocals and the soundstage. Not sure about the separation, but they are brand new.
They are pretty closed too. I tried to answer the phone with them on. No go. 
I will be wearing these right through the weekend and am looking forward to trying lots of different music and seeing the sound changes for me.
I am one of those guys that loves almost everything at first. Then after a month it is like “I really like this, but I don’t care for that”.
Fun days ahead.
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Tbh, I still much, much prefer my brand-new SR2 pair as opposed to my broken-in SR2 pair.
Play around with them, get to know them, and finally, decide whether you want to keep them.
Don’t force anything! Listen to your ears and how you truly feel about them.
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Another update. Well I have been using the SR2’s every day from Tuesday to Sunday. Today was all jazz, all day:
- Charles Mingus - Ah Um
- Donald Byrd - Byrd’s Word
- Clarence Clemons - Peacemaker
- Hank Mobley - Peckin’ Time
- Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
- Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame and Red Clay
- Horace Silver - Songs for my Father.
Lots of classics!
The SR2’s have tons of bass and great mids.
They are definitely lacking in treble, IMO. I love horn jazz and sometimes they can get a little screechy or piercing, depending on the headphone and the piece of music. That never happened with these. On the other hand, they didn’t quite hit some of the high notes that I am used to.
So far, bass and mids are great. Treble is somewhat lacking. I am somewhat unsure about clarity and separation. They didn’t seem great at first, but then I had some brain burn-in after a few days and they seemed better. I am now Very curious to compare them against my favourites (Grado GH2’s, Focal Elex’s and HiFiman HE6se V2’s). That will happen closer to next weekend. I am also curious how they would stack up against the CFA Cascades.
I can’t see adding any bass boost at this time, but I am curious if the 3D sound effect will make any difference at all. Will also toss them on my Violectric V220 and Little Dot MK9 this week. Just about tweaking this week and then start comparing headphones next weekend.
So far, they seem like a nice set, but time will tell how nice.
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I love them very much. I am on my 3rd day and getting better. I am using WA5 LE with Schiit Lokius(bass only) and very awesome with EDM. I accepted finally that I enjoy dynamic drivers over planar or electrostatic.
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Removed two circles closing off the driver which I gotta say is one beautiful speaker.
I’ll snap pics but it’s easy and it opens the back completely. No negative sounds being produced. Treble woke up completely. Mids no worthwhile change but my Lokius middle high band wakes that region up. Bass is different is still good.
I’m gonna do some stuff.
Best built Chinese headphone.
Here’s pics of what I removed and I’ll have to show pics of the internals later. Right now back to something on TV.
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Holy crap! I’m eager to see how they look on the inside, behind the covers.
p.s. those are some sexy ass legs 
You are a brave man!
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Here it is
Look at the speaker and you will notice it’s a regular speaker and not the headphone type.
Yes headphone drivers are but they smash it all together to fit. Suspension is real one. Basically driver has long throw and surround to deliver big bass but like normal approach you need bass control for more. The basket is the entire baffle so I could add some dampening if it helps in reducing any resonance. The housing is perfect. This company could take Hifiman as they show real smarts where Hifiman is good with a glue gun.
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I’d say dullness comes from the surround over dampening the cone. I noticed this effect on my JL Audio aluminum tweeters with a rubber surround wich killed sparkle.
EDM is great but some other genres not pushing high energy is problem.
I’m confused, what does this exactly mean?
@voja I’m assuming he’s talking about this style of speaker as the “headphone type”. And this as the “classic speaker type”.
Both styles I have experience with (owned both the Apos Caspians and Emu Teaks). To my ear, both headphones had equally strong punch in the bass. A characteristic that suspension dynamic drivers are known for because of Foster. But the Kennerton “headphone type” driver gives the Foster driver a run for its money.
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Thank you!!
I also found the plastic perforated part on top of the driver quite unusual. It reminds me of the Sony MDR-R10
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I think Audio Technica uses a similar grill with their drivers as well.
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Damn, they really do! Interesting stuff. But iBasso went a step further and custom-designed it. It must’ve taken a lot of trial & error.
it’s a fantastic headphone, i’m completely smitten with mine. Thanks Voja for the recommendation
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Thank you for trusting me! Nothing makes me happier than hearing someone’s expectations were met after following my recommendation(s). All my recommendations are my very own and are honest.
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Yes I’m talking about how the driver basket with magnet resembles a more traditional speaker. Normal headphone speakers look compressed pushing the cone and magnet together.
iBasso driver has a long throw yoke which is the space the coil travels in. Subs use long throw for reaching higher spl. Look at big car audio subs for clear picture to what I am speaking of. Here’s one
Fi Audio is my favorite car subs
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My custom Snorry headphones use driver in cd3000 which looks like mdr one in your pic
Oh okay, so I understood you. This is what I initially thought.
iBasso has quite a few interesting things going on behind the covers 
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